> Making your work public. I cannot stress this enough. Regardless of who you are, holy hell some people WILL steal your work for their own. My first internsh

> Making your work public. I cannot stress this enough. Regardless of who you are, holy hell some people WILL steal your work for their own. My first internship manager in late 1980's took my work and patented it as his own! I found out about it years later when I was hired permanently. I confronted him and he told me interns weren't allowed to patent. I learned this was false years later, but he had already left the company. In a second instance, that same internship, I also wrote some code that was published in a corporate whitepaper and the motherfucker replaced my name with his in the comments. Different guy, same company. I don't think making it public would have mattered because I was just an intern and we were treated as shit, but thinking back on it now makes my blood boil because both the patent and the doc are public record (USPTO) to this day. Maybe today I would have a fighting chance as an intern. If you have a good idea, make sure top brass know it came from you. There's no guarantee it won't be stolen, but it gives you a fighting chance the more people know that you did it. Heh. 30+ years later and I'm grumbling about it again. lol. Also, FTA: > Avoid everyone who is really enthusiastic about you being a woman. I always found it creepy how some guys fall all over themselves to remind the only woman on the team that she is the only woman on the team. It's like, 'yay, thanks for noticing...??' but ... hmmm... I'm guessing it is just a guy new to workplace diversity, and give him some slack. In my experience, it is usually older men (50-60's) who are getting the swing of the new generation of "sexism is bad, mmm'kay" and really want to show they are trying but know they were inherently trained by society to think in 80's/90's way about diversity. I get it.